Antworten

I create the styles primarily in order to typeset the
bibliography according to my ideas, to requirements that I
have to fulfil and to sensible suggestions of other users.
Up to now, I did not need an author-year style, and I have
no plans to create one for biblatex-dw at the moment.

I have problems with big BibTeX
databases. If there are more than 124
citations, I get an error with the 125th citation. The entries
in the .bib file are correct. When I compile the document,
I get error messages like

You have likely problems with BibTeX's
capacity. The program originates from the 1980s, and memory was very limited
on computers of these days. So you have to use the program
bibtex8
instead of bibtex. But this is not always sufficient, because the
default settings of bibtex8 are limited as well. One solution is to
use the --wolfgang switch which does nothing
else than increase the capacity of bibtex8. But in some cases, even
this is not sufficient. Philipp Lehman suggested to use the following
command to invoke bibtex8 with a very large database:

The field formats defined by biblatex are to be found in the file
biblatex.def. biblatex-dw redefines some of the
field formats. The definitions are allocated to the files
authortitle-dw.bbx and
standard-dw.cbx.

This is managed by the name formats which are defined in the file
biblatex.def. I cannot go into the details here,
but the order can be customized using the bibmacrosname:last-first and name:first-last.
You have to pass four arguments to these bibmacros. The
following eight arguments are the possible values:

#1 = last name
#2 = last name (initials)
#3 = first name
#4 = first name (initials)
#5 = name prefix, a.k.a. von part
#6 = name prefix (initials)
#7 = name affix, a.k.a. junior part
#8 = name affix (initials)

The main name formats are labelname,
sortname and
default. Different styles use them differently.
You can see an overview of which style uses which name format
in which particular circumstances in the
German TeX FAQ.

If you would like to reverse the order of first and last names and
have the first names abbreviated, for instance, resulting in
Lastname, F., you could use the following:

The field pagination holds only the
pagination type for citations. There is an additional field
bookpagination for the bibliography.
This field has to be defined as column
(or the appropriate value you need).